Teams updates to watch: malicious link warnings, blocked risky files, and a new private backroom chat

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Microsoft has announced three Teams updates the past months. Two that strengthen security and one that will improve how organizers coordinate events: Malicious URL Protection, Weaponizable file type protection and Private chat for organizers, co‑organizers, and presenters. Please note that timelines can shift, so treat the dates as guidance rather than guarantees. Malicious URL Protection (Roadmap ID 499893 ) Microsoft has announced link‑scanning in Teams chats and channels that warns senders and recipients about unsafe URLs. The feature reached general availability rollout by the end of November 2025, while the separate change to make it ON by default, originally planned as part of that release, has been postponed to early 2026.  If you don't want to wait for it to be on by default, or feel the need to configure it, you can do so in the Teams admins center: "Teams admin center → Messaging settings → Scan messages for unsafe URLs”. Or you can mange the configuration with Power...

Cross posting in Teams is getting a new feature

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Cross posting in Teams was released a few months ago, but according to the messages in the Admin portal it is already getting a new feature.

Users will soon be able to edit these posts, and by doing so updating all the instances of the post. Til will be possible to add and remove channels and @ mentions.



To access the feature when it is released, just select "edit" as you would do a regular post. To create a cross post message, you will have to use the "advanced format" feature of a post.

According to the roadmap, this should be rolling out by the end of March